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Archive for June, 2007
TwitterGrams – The Next Step for Twitter?
Dave Winer over at Scripting News today is experimenting with something that may very well become the next step for Twitter.
How Facebook Will Make Money From the Facebook Marketplace
When we first covered the Facebook Marketplace, it wasn’t completely clear how the social network would make money from the service. I was creating a listing on the site last night when this aspect became abundantly clear.
How The Other Side is Marketing
I was watching Thank You For Smoking last night when it occurred to me that while we covered the Tobacco Industry’s brilliance in marketing cigarettes, we never gave the other side a fair chance. Here’s a look at how the other side is marketing the harmful side effects of smoking.
Why The Same Content Again and Again?
I recently came across a submission on Digg that got over 6,000 Diggs and was one of the most voted on stories of the week. And this is exactly what happened the last time the same story was submitted to Digg from the same url and by the same submitter. Is this a problem?
How Do You Get Your Diggs?
Hi everyone, given that I am new here, I am trying to get an idea of what the Pronet audience thinks about certain topics. I have listed some common methods for gathering votes on the popular socially driven news and content site, Digg.
News Corp./Yahoo: A Potential Conservative Web?
Rush Hour Episode 16
This week on Rush Hour [Jane Copland](http://www.seomoz.org/team/jane), [Cameron](http://www.cameronolthuis.com) and I talked about the potential [MySpace and Yahoo merger](http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/myspace-yahoo/), the popularity of [Facebook Apps](http://news.com.com/Facebooks+app+feeding+frenzy/2100-1038_3-6191152.html), [YouTube locals](http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6191856.html), [Digg threaded comments](http://mashable.com/2007/06/19/digg-introduces-fully-threaded-comments/), [a women who is being harassed due to social media](http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6682952&nav=0Rce), [white labeled social networks](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/20/kickapps-white-label-social-networking-that-delivers/), and the 1.5 billion dollars being spent on digital products.
Redditing Reddit Advertisements
Reddit is relatively new to the whole ‘generating revenue through advertisements’ business model. Until the socially driven news site was acquired by Conde Nast Publications, the site was completely ad free. Even though the site does have ads now, until recently, they came with an interesting social-minded twist.
Subvert and Profit, Still Going Strong
When Subvert and Profit (the latest service aimed at gaming Digg) launched, there was a lot of talk about how the site would simply and quickly vanish. Well, it hasn’t closed or been shut down yet, so I thought it was about time to get an update on how things are going over there. Here is the transcript of my email conversation with Ragnar at the service:
